The same dumb shit is happening because we have a group of managers that mostly failed at their previous stops, and even more importantly two Directors who were both terminated/being pushed out of the last job they each held. I am guilty, I bought into my manager's hype, as a female I was excited about two female directors, and a female manager. The manager I work for is someone I used to know at a previous company in different divisions, so there was trust and my pre-conceived notion that there is too much of the "boys club" in this industry. The guilt isn't from that approach, but rather that many of these people failed miserably in management and director roles and many of us ignored the results and bought into what now can only be viewed as artificial hype. We are stuck, vesting, bonus, etc needs to be collected for quite some time to at least make it not a completely flawed career decision.
Ask your manager and your director about their previous companies and results, look at all the LinkedIn accounts, and then decide why we are having the problems we are having. I thought people were running to Neurocrine based on excitement, what was not realized at the time is that all of the people were running away from somewhere else they had failed miserably.